WEBVTT AISHA WALKER WAS IN THATCOMMUNITY, WHERE FRUSTRATION ISGROWING.TAISHA A NEIGHBORHOOD ONCEOVERUN BY DRUGS HAS BEEN TRYINGTO GROW FROM IT.>> MOST PEOPLE ARE TRYING TURN THINGS AROUND.TAISHA: GUN VIOLENCE IS SETTINGTHE IVANHOE NEIGHBORHOOD BACK.>> I HEARD SEVEN OR EIGHT SHOTSWHEN I WAS IN MY GARDEN IN FRONTPLANTING FLOWERS.TAISHA: THOSE BULLETS CAME FROM37TH AND WOODLAND, RIGHT OUTSIDETHE NUTER IVANHOE NEIGHBORHOODCENTER>> GUNSHOTS ARE NORMAL.TAISHA: NEIGHBORS HAD NO TIME TOREACT.>> DIDN'T HAVE TIME.POP, POP, POP, POP, POP, POP.NOT ENOUGH TIME.TAISHA A WOMAN WAS SHOT DEAD.POLICE TOOK A MAN INTO CUSTODY.>> I DIDN'T HEAR ANY ARGUING ORANYTHING LIKE THAT, JUST SOMEGUNSHOTS AND NO COUNTER SHOTS.TAISHA NEIGHBORS ARE GROWINGFRUSTRATED.>> WHEN YOU TALK TO PEOPLE ANDTHEY'RE FED UP, YEAH.BUT YOU TALK TO ANYONE AROUNDHERE, AND THIS IS NORMAL.TAISHA POLICE ARE FRUSTRATEDTOO.,>> WHAT CAN WE DO KANSAS CITY?DO YOU HAVE SUGGESTIONS?DO YOU HAVE TIPS, DO YOU HAVEIDEAS?TAISHA: UNTIL A SOLUTION ISFOUND, SOME IN THE COMMUNITYRATHER BE HEARD THAN SEEN.>> POLICE CHIEFS CHANGE, POLICECAPTAINS CHANGE, MAYORS CHANGEBUT THE STATE OF THE CITY, REMAINS THE SAME.TAISHA: JUST LAST WEEK, THATNEIGHBORHOOD WAS FEATURED IN ANARTICLE COMMENDING THENEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION FORCLEANING UP THE STREETS ANDMAKING THEM SAFER.STEVEN THIS IS THE CITY'S 87THHOMICIDE THIS YEAR.POLICE ARE ASKING ANYONE WITHINFORMATION TO CALL THECRIMESTOPPERS TIPS HOTLINE,

Kansas City police have released the name of a woman shot and killed Wednesday afternoon near 37th Street and Woodland Avenue.

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Officers were called to the Ivanhoe neighborhood about 3 p.m. and found Tamara Randolph, 36, dead.

A man was taken into custody for questioning.

"I heard about seven or eight shots when I was in my garden in front planting flowers," neighbor Emily Snyder said.

People who live in the area say they have worked hard to make positive changes in the neighborhood, and they're frustrated by the violence.

"When you talk to people, and they're fed up, yeah. But you talk to anyone around here and this is normal," Snyder said.

"Police chiefs change, police captains change, mayors change, but the state of the city remains the same," said a man who only wanted to be identified as T.J.

The suspect in this case has been identified as 35-year-old John A. Frazier.

Witnesses told police that Randolph went into a residence at that location to retrieve her two children.

When police got to the scene, she was found dead on the ground.

Officers found a note on the door of that residence written by Randolph asking Frazier to let her have the kids back so she could get them ready for school and get their shots.

Video surveillance also shows the victim arriving and knocking on the door before Frazier opens the door with what appears to be a gun.

Video of the incident cut off at that point, however, Kansas City's ShotSpotter system recorded seven gunshots.

The victim's sister was reportedly on the phone with Randolph at the time of the incident. The woman heard Randolph yelling her children's' names. Then the woman said she heard a struggle, then nothing. The next sounds on the phone were police sirens.

Family members told police that Frazier had taken the victim's children two months ago and had not returned them.

Frazier has been charged with murder second degree and armed criminal action.